9.2 KiB
1.0.60 (1.1alpha1, 2010-xx-xx)
Features added since the last feature release include:
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Mount point management
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Support for new "sector based" alignment (vs. the traditional cylinder based alignment) required for compatibility with newer disks (where the phyisical sector size is 4096 bytes)
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SMART status reports
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Support new file systems: BTRFS, HPFS, LUKS, OCFS2 and ZFS
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Support GPT partition tables.
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Support for setting volume labels on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems
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Export and import a partition table in a human readable and editable format similar, but for technical reasons not identical, to sfdisk's.
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Support for backend plugins that do the heavy lifting. The first (and for now only) implementation is libparted-based.
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New operation: Shredding (i.e., securely deleting) a partition
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A configuration dialog including settings for:
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File system colors
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The default file system for new partitions
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Applying operations as non-root
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Setting the log level for the log output dock.
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The backend plugin to use
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How to shred: Overwrite with zeros (faster) or random data (slower, but more secure)
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Allow editing start and end sectors in size dialogs in a new "advanced" dialog section.
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Instantly align partition start and end in size dialogs if partition alignment is on.
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Show a progress dialog when scanning for devices.
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A device properties dialog.
Additional changes:
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Allow the Information dock widget to be docked at the top of bottom
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The partition list view now has more information available in additional columns. The user can sort the columns and turn individual columns on and off.
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Use the icon suggested by KDE's Solid backend in the Devices list.
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Always select the first device on program start.
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Use KDE's KIO for file transfer where possible.
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Performance improvements in the dialog to change a partition's size.
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The KPart and KCM have been removed.
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Allow hiding/showing the menu bar.
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Add a context menu to the log output with entries to save or clear the log.
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GUI support for devices with more than 2^31 sectors.
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Format sector and size values according to KDE settings for number formatting in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs.
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Allow fractional sizes in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs.
1.0.2 (2010-04-23)
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Copy a file system's UUID to the copied file system when creating a file system from another one.
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Implement a workaround for a libparted bug that makes it sometimes fail to commit changes to the OS in versions earlier than 2.2.
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Update the partition's file system and re-check for constraints if the partition's role is changed in the "Create New Partition" dialog. This fixes a bug where the user was not able to grow an extended partition if he'd previously selected a file system that cannot grow beyond a certain size.
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Always use the correct icons in modified ok/cancel buttons in dialogs and message boxes
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Fix a crash when operations to create, resize and delete an extended partitions where incorrectly merged into one (bug 232092)
1.0.1 (2010-01-09)
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Fix a bug that made it impossible to activate or deactivate a swap file system.
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Correctly handle linux swap even with newer parted versions.
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Ask for an administrator's password on startup so that non-KDE users can run the application from their launcher.
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Use the "blkid" command as an alternative to "vol_id" if the latter is unavailable.
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Do not crash when using the Oxygen style under KDE SC 4.4.
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Do not crash when the user clicks in the partition widget with newer g++ versions.
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Sort devices by name after scanning.
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Don't disable updates for the partition widget while applying operations. This leads to corrupted graphics unter Qt4.6.
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Work around a LibParted segmentation fault when the Linux Device Mapper is used and /dev/mapper has non-existing entries.
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The above also works around a LibParted problem when the BIOS has a floppy drive configured but none is actually present.
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Set item height in the partition and devices lists to 32 pixel to make them look less condensed.
1.0.0 (2009-08-17)
None.
1.0.0-RC1 (2009-08-03)
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Correctly handle ext4 file systems even with patched parted 1.8.8 (and hopefully 1.8.9 too). Patch by Fatih Asici fatih@pardus.org.tr. (bug #195243)
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Clear the partition flags for a copied partition in the preview. (bug #202346)
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Write the new start sector to the partition's boot sector if an NTFS file system was moved or copied. (bug #202329)
1.0.0-BETA3 (2009-06-04)
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Set the default file system in the New-Partition-dialog, don't just rely on it being the first one in the list.
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Sort items in file system combo boxes case-insensitively.
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Fix a bug where the total free space available could get smaller and smaller when moving an existing partition in a dialog.
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Fix a bug that the progress information wasn't set as window title for the top level application window.
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Speed up copying file systems (and thus moving, resizing and copying).
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Add some basic timing output to the detailed report for copying file systems.
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Find a file system's mount point even if it is identified by label in fstab.
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Add support for reading file system labels from FAT16 and FAT32.
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Fix a bug where the volume label for a linuxswap file system was lost when resizing it.
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Make sure all interesting information shown in labels anywhere in the application is user-selectable with the mouse.
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Display the UUID for most file systems that support it.
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Always show the current file system in the partition properties dialog's file system combo box, even if it cannot be created, is too big or too small.
1.0.0-BETA2 (2009-04-30)
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Add an application icon contributed by David Miller.
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Allow setting the file system label in the dialog when creating a new partition.
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Add a context menu to operation list.
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Use a shell script to run partition manager as a child of hal-lock. This should in theory (and according to the hal-lock manpage) avoid notifications for new devices, but doesn't seem to work that well.
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Fix a bug that would keep the user from deleting a newly created logical partition because the application thought there were higher-numbered partitions still mounted.
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Add a kcm for KDE Partition Manager. If this is built and installed or not can be (like it already is the case with the KPart) configured via cmake.
1.0.0-BETA1 (2009-01-13)
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Fix a potential crash when merging a New Operation and a Create File System Operation.
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Set extended partitions as busy as long as logical partitions inside them are mounted.
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Don't silently succeed when unmounting a partition that cannot in fact be unmounted because it has no mount points.
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Prevent creating a new partition table on a device with mounted partitions.
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Add tooltips to partition widgets.
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Don't show cd/dvd readers or writers as devices even if libparted reports them.
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Add support for ext4.
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Fix calculation of reserved/free blocks for ext2/3/4.
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Output reason why a mount or unmount might have failed.
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Fix minimum width for extended partitions in the partition table widget.
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Fix a bug where a partition table just created would not disappear when the operation to create it was undone.
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Don't allow creating partitions smaller than the device's cylinder size.
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Fix an error that could lead to some space (a few megabytes) between two partitions being wasted.
1.0.0-ALPHA2 (2008-09-24)
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Add and install a .desktop file.
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Don't allow the user to close the main window while operations are being applied.
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Handle activating and deactivating swap. Also, swap does have labels.
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Don't try to print a mount point in the partition properties dialog if there is none.
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Show partition table type name and used/max primary partitions in the info pane.
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All disk label types but msdos are read only for now, until the support situation for them improves.
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Set default value for maximum number of primaries from 255 to 4.
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Actually set the correct disk label type before applying the operation to create a new disk label.
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Don't update the partition table widget while operations are being applied. This fixes a race condition that would potentially crash the application when applying operations.
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Update devices in the GUI after creating a new disk label or undoing operations.
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Set the operation state of all operations to StateNone when temporarily undoing them right before starting the thread to apply them. This fixes a crash when an operation fails and the remaining ones are undone twice.
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Update bug report address and homepage in the aboutdata.
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Unblock SIGCHLD in main so Kubuntu's kdesudo can run the application as root.
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If udevadm settle fails, try to call udevsettle to better support older systems.
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Fix the minimum size calculations for partition widgets.
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Add some doxygen documentation.
1.0.0-ALPHA1 (2008-09-18)
- First public release